• Jyotirlingas
• Shakti Peethas
• Char Dham & Other Pilgrimages
When you stand before the central shrine at Akshardham, rising 141 feet above the Yamuna’s eastern bank, you are looking at a structure that contains not one ounce of steel, iron, or concrete reinforcement. Every one of its 234 carved …
Sudama had nothing. A poor Brahmin in a village so impoverished that his wife had once told him, through tears, that she did not mind being hungry herself — only that their children deserved to eat. He had a childhood …
Maa Tara Tarini Temple, situated atop the Kumari Hills on the banks of the Rushikulya River in Ganjam district, Odisha, is one of the most revered Shakti Peethas in India. The temple is dedicated to Goddess Tara and …
Priya Sharma, a 44-year-old teacher from Dehradun, drove 320 km overnight with her family to reach Badrinath by dawn. She wanted the first darshan of the morning. She reached the temple steps at 5:00 AM, queue already forming.
The gate …
Manoj Tiwari, a 47-year-old post office clerk from Gorakhpur, had saved up for this trip since his mother passed. She always wanted to do Kashi Vishwanath darshan. He was doing it for her.
He took the Gorakhdham Express on a …
Deepa Krishnan, a 34-year-old marketing manager from Chennai, drove to Rameshwaram on a long weekend with her husband and sister. Four hours from Madurai, across the Pamban Bridge, through the narrow island roads to the temple town.
At the East …
Savitri Devi, a 52-year-old homemaker from Patna, had been waiting for this trip for nine years. Every Navratri she would say, “Is baar zaroor jaaungi.” This October, she finally went — her husband, her daughter, and her son-in-law, all four …
Rakesh Pandey, a retired schoolteacher from Bhopal, took the 4-hour drive to Omkareshwar with his wife on a Tuesday morning. They reached by 8:00 AM, joined the general queue at the main temple, had darshan of the Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga by …
Vikram Negi, a 38-year-old software engineer from Gurgaon, had been planning Kedarnath for three years. He is the kind of person who researches everything. He compared helicopter operators, read reviews, found what seemed like a good deal through a travel …
The Dwarkadhish Temple, also known as Jagat Mandir, is one of the most iconic and spiritually significant temples in India. Located in Dwarka, Gujarat, it is dedicated to Lord Krishna, worshipped here as Dwarkadhish – King …
